One of the main reasons people join organizations is to connect and network with others who share their passion for certain ideals and a commitment to act on them.
NAMLE offers you many opportunities to connect and network with others who, like you, want to advance the field of media literacy education, particularly in the US.
As a NAMLE member, you can take full advantage of any of these ways to connect and to share, to learn and to grow, to contribute your insights and to increase your own skills and leadership in the field.
Information + Inspiration = NMEC
No doubt about it, NAMLE's National Media Education Conference is the largest and most inspiring gathering of media literacy education practitioners and supporters in the US. Held every two years in cities across the U.S., this acclaimed conference is four days of non-stop networking, connecting, sharing and learning from one another as well as from top speakers and leaders in the field.
Active NAMLE members receive discounted rates, discounts at the bookstore, an invitation to the NAMLE General Assembly and many other conference benefits.
Regional Events Link Neighbors
Increasingly, NAMLE organizational members, caucuses and affiliated organizations host regional events - from week-long summer institutes to one-day conferences to afternoon film screenings. Find out what may be happening in your city, state or region on the NAMLE National Events Calendar. You're sure to meet many other media literacy supporters with whom you can connect.
Exchange Insights and Ideas
A growing collection of blogs, bulletin boards and other interactive opportunities are in stages of development throughout the NAMLE website. Take some time to surf around, bookmark your favorite interactive places and add your feedback, comments or ideas to various conversations. If you wish to start a new blog and are willing to be responsible for monitoring it for at least 6 months, please contact communications@namle.net
Resource Readers and Reviewers
The NAMLE Marketplace is eager to receive reviews of the books, videos, DVDs and curriculum resources available in the Marketplace. They're looking for success stories with curriculum as well as critiques or reflections on professional literature. To find out how to submit a resource review, go to Marketplace FAQs.
Connect in a Caucus
NAMLE Caucuses are a way for members in the same geographic area or those who work in a common field or have other media literacy interests in common, to work together on projects that benefit not only caucus members but the larger media literacy educational community locally and nationally. Caucuses are self-governing and self-funded. They choose when to meet, how to run their meetings, what issues to discuss, and what activities they wish to hold. Consider joining an active caucus – or start one!
Volunteer on a NAMLE Committee
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes individuals and groups, committees and networks, to "raise" a national organization or to develop a field like media literacy education. As a volunteer organization, NAMLE exists for its members – and only by their efforts.
Through NAMLE committee work, you will get to know others in the field, develop lasting professional relationships and build your capacity for continuing leadership. There may even be tax benefits! But most of all you will have the satisfaction of knowing your ideas and creative energies are helping to advance the field of media literacy education as others before you have done.
Board members often hear that others would like "to help." The successful organization tries to match what needs to be done with the people who have the skills to accomplish it.
Your first step in volunteering for committee work is to take the NAMLE Skills Survey to help us match you up with the committee that most needs YOUR skills and expertise. It only takes a few minutes but the rewards may last a lifetime.
Graduate Student Caucus
One of the most energetic caucuses was formed to facilitate exchange and collaboration between graduate students anywhere in the field of media literacy education. Their website includes a Research Reading Room, a database of media literacy friendly graduate departments and a Collaboration process for finding partners to present at conferences or publish in journals. You must be an active NAMLE membership to participate in the caucus, but to encourage student affiliation, NAMLE has a low-cost student membership rate of only $35/year.
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